Malzahar with Rakan
How to Synergize Malzahar and Rakan
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Malzahar Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Rakan
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Advice to Understand How Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Malzahar Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Malzahar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Malzahar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is paired with Rakan, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Rakan provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Rakan on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Malzahar during team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Rakan
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no one best companion for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Rakan is a good ally for Malzahar. By being on the same side as Malzahar, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 51.5%. This signals that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Malzahar and Rakan that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Rakan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Malzahar and Rakan together, you will not be granting your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Rakan teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Malzahar in order to synergize with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Malzahar and Rakan synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Malzahar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other typical builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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